Refrigerator LED lighting market leverages cold chain logistics is growing
Cold chain refers to certain food raw materials, processed foods or semi-finished products, special biological products and medicines. After being acquired, processed, and inactivated, during the process of product processing, storage, transportation, distribution, retail and use, Each link is always in the special low-temperature environment necessary for the product to reduce losses, prevent pollution and deterioration, and ensure a special supply chain system for product food safety, biosafety, and drug safety. A complete cold chain includes the four links of product processing, storage, transportation and sales. With the rise of the living standards of Chinese residents, the demand for cold chain food has greatly increased, and the future development prospects of the cold chain industry are promising.
The cold chain industry involves a variety of cold chain equipment terminals, which are more typical, such as refrigerators / freezers widely used in supermarkets, shopping malls, and convenience stores, and have special requirements for lighting. Its function is not only for lighting, but also for decoration. By increasing the illumination through lighting, it appears that the refrigerated products in the freezer are very clean, increasing customers' desire to buy, attracting customers to buy more products, and increasing sales.
In addition, refrigerated lighting also has heat requirements for lighting fixtures. The refrigerating / freezing environment requires that the heat generated by the lamps should not be too high. Traditional incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps, energy-saving lamps and other products have high heat generation. The refrigeration of the air compressor will increase the power, it will easily blow up and damage, short life, and frequent replacement is not suitable for use in this environment. At the same time, if the lamp blows up, the pollutants leaking out of the lamp will cause contamination of the food and cause hidden dangers to food safety. Therefore, LED lighting has become a more suitable choice.
According to the statistics of OFweek Industrial Research Institute, the global commercial refrigerated / freezer display cabinet capacity in 2017 was nearly 16 million units, and it is estimated that by 2022, the global commercial refrigerated / freezer display cabinets will reach 19.7 million units. For our country, the main favorable factors of the cold chain industry are: national policy promotion, urbanization construction, people's increased requirements for food safety, and changes in consumption structure. Driven by these favorable factors, the future development of the food cold chain logistics industry can be at the same time, commercial refrigerators are expected to develop rapidly in coordination with the cold chain logistics industry. It is expected that the commercial refrigerator market in China will maintain double-digit growth in the future.
However, from the current application market, refrigeration / freezer lighting fixtures or traditional lamps (such as fluorescent lamps) account for a large proportion, and the LED penetration rate is actually not high. Industry analysts believe that LED lighting with its high light efficiency, energy saving and environmental protection, the advantages of long life, high color rendering, will be the most ideal product to replace fluorescent tubes in the future. The low penetration rate of LED refrigerated cabinet lighting is caused by factors other than price and user perception. Users generally think that as long as the lighting effect is achieved, no more factors are considered.
According to statistics from OFweek Industrial Research Institute, the global LED refrigerator lighting market sales revenue in 2017 was about 520 million US dollars, of which China's revenue exceeded 100 million US dollars, accounting for about 20% of the world's total. According to OFweek industry analysts, compared to other LED lighting segments, although the overall market capacity of LED refrigerator lighting is still small, it is believed that in the future, as the LED penetration rate of refrigerator lighting continues to increase, the cold chain logistics industry ( The compound annual growth rate is close to 20%.) The rapidly developing Dongfeng will continue to expand its market capacity.